Death exists.
This is one of our few certainties.
The uncertainties pour in when asked to define death. Many people can't. Those who can usually do so through explanations based on faith, because there is no evidence. Some look at the lack of evidence of existence after death as evidence that there is no existence after death.
We are scared of death.
Another certainty.
We may not know what comes after death, but we have suspicions that it isn't this. And this is.
And 'after death' could not be at all. Or it could be different.
Either way, there could be no harm in sticking around.
Fear of death seems to go beyond the evolutionary explanation that we exist because we have the drive to keep existing. Logic based on evidence confirms that it is indeed probably something to attempt to prevent.
What you have just read is fact.
What you are about to read is also fact.
I feel morally obligated to separate these two different types of fact.
I see death as the point where the precariously balanced organic super system that we call life inevitably slows down and disperses. Instead of the containing elements and energies closely bouncing around collectively sending signals, reacting, and 'accomplishing' goals the elements and energies are released and spread across the universe. Acting and reacting to the conditions of everything.
Then come the questions. Is death all that different from life?
In life are we reacting to the same universal constants as our composition does in death? Only in much closer proximity and to an exponentially larger frequency? The matter that composes humans must also be the same matter that composes everything else: they can't act differently.
So is the answer to the question of What is self? the same as the answer to What is everything? Or is there only one truly inclusive question of what, What is?
We is. We may only be able to understand from these hyperactive coded compositions we call bodies when they are functioning, living, but they are made up of the very fabrics that everything is woven with. Whether we be alive or dead, we is.
Two things:
ReplyDeleteThere IS evidence pointing to life after death.
It is possible that we are IN the physical universe, but not OF the physical universe. That we HAVE a body, we are intimately connected to a body, but we are NOT that body, nor are we essentially any part of the physical universe. That what we truly are is of another universe and that which we truly are is immortal.
It is certainly possible, and shouldn't be ruled out, but it is a jump. I would love to hear any evidence you have found that points to an immortal parallel existence.
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